DefTalk Episode #16: Interview with John Staats (Vanilla WoW Dungeon Developer)

Really interesting. Thanks guys!!!


And I'm so hyped for Classic. As far as my hazy memory goes, it went public (from beta) on a Thursday in the UK and I had a copy and my character up and going on the Sunday! Nostalgia meet marshmallow!

How has this only got 6k views?! Insane, so many people missing this gem :(
Thanks to both you and John for the episode/interview. I played wow from the beginning and am now just in some limbo waiting for classic, randomly searching for classic and wow content since I don't like current wow. This was gold, so many questions finally answered and very unexpectedly.

I would agree that a type of group finder should be implemented, however not the retail variant. A function where you can find players looking for a party on your server, invite them to you group and then head towards the instance is all that's needed and personally I would not want anything where you can play cross realm and especially not a "teleport to dungeon" feature.


Talking about threat as a bad thing feels wrong, it's perhaps the most fun thing about tanking. It forces the group to play carefully, strategically pulling mobs and gives a proper dynamic to party play overall. Tanking after TBC sucked, in my opinion.

BRD most epic dungeon ever.

How does this not have more views!?! real talk from an original dev on the best MMO ever created. This was just podcast GOLD! Thank you guys and thank you Mr. Staats .

The 1 server you talked about, has 36,000 level 60's and 7000 players at all times lol

I love this channel bro, can't wait for classic. Let us know what server you'll be playing on and I'll def play there.

Blackrock Depths is an amazing dungeon.

You've come so far this year, lads. Brings a tear to my poorly-rendered eye.

When the sound fucks up and he starts to sound like a robot,
STOP THE INTERVIEW. disconnect and reconnect. Take a 5 minute break. Don't be idle and let the technical problem make the interview torturous.

Surprising to hear about the lack of pre-sales. I was coming from EQ and even though EQ2 was coming out shortly before WoW was I knew WoW would be the game for me. Ended up pre-ordering the Collector's Edition and have never regretted it.

the content is nice but please improve your quality. it is 2018, not 1995. makes it hard to follow for an non native ;)

I appreciate you guys thanking him at the end there. His complete devotion to the game is truly remarkable. I've watched a few interviews with him now. He is so God damn interesting. I could ask him questions for hours and hours.

But seriously, thank YOU for thanking him cause I never really thought about it that way until you said it.

Excellent interview.

It's a shame the voice lags in the recording. Great to listen to nonetheless!

Best Vanilla interview ever?

Such a joy to listen to! You earned a sub from me! Cool to know he lives not too far from me!